Make Plywood Floor Looklike Hardwood

Hold a wood combing tool or wood grain rocker at one end of the plank.

Make plywood floor looklike hardwood.

A beautiful plywood floor starts with a smooth texture. I am doing the bathroom floor in an old round log cabin and the bathroom is in a hexes on shape. Yes plywood is a soft wood and yes it will get a little beat up over the years. Plywood flooring is a must to add the type of flooring when need to get an interior look modern will also help insulate the room.

Luckily you ll find tools to simplify every step of the process. I troweled down a marine grade adhesive and installed like tile. We didn t have 20k in our flooring budget so we came up with a diy way to get high end looking totally unique wood floors for our 1100 sq foot great room. Staggered is more natural if you want it to look like a true hardwood floor.

A plywood floor is more work to install than laminate but it will last much longer too especially if you buy the cheaper laminates in the price ranges you are talking about. The second is 6 inch wide 3 8 thick radiata dunnage boards. Tight joints minimal nails. A solution for situations like this is to sand the plywood and paint it to look like hardwood.

One floor is oak strip flooring made from planned oak moulding. Unroll the underlayment and staple it down all sides. I ve already tore up the linoleum and sanded the plywood sub floor. The concept is simple enough but the results depend entirely on execution.

Take the plywood into strips and cut the parallelograms that can be fit together making a hexagon and a 3d plywood flooring with a repeated wood cub pattern. I went for a more formal look. People who want a very polished sleek floor should not install a plywood floor. You don t want to have two of the same lengths beside each other.

When you have the floor covered you are ready to start planking. If you don t like the look of the grain pattern. I started with 3 different lengths 5 4 and 1. So first sand the floor to remove any splinters.

While hardwood is solid all the way through plywood consists of multiple thicknesses of thin wood veneer layered at angles and then glued and compressed under heat to form a strong laminated. Bare plywood can have many inconsistencies across the surface such as splinters and dust.